December 15, 2020To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
December 14, 2020Building machines that better understand human goals by Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL A new algorithm capable of inferring goals and plans could help machines better adapt to the imperfect nature of human planning.
December 14, 2020“SCOUT” helps researchers find, quantify significant differences among organoids by David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Unbiased, high-throughput analysis pipeline improves utility of “minibrains” for understanding development and diseases such as Zika infection.
December 10, 2020One more clue to brain changes in Huntington’s disease by Jill Crittenden | McGovern Institute for Brain Research Opioid receptor MOR1 changes discovered in neurodegenerative disease model.
December 7, 2020Two MIT seniors named 2021 Marshall Scholars by Julia Mongo | Distinguished Fellowships Katie Collins and Marla Odell are heading to the United Kingdom next fall for two years of graduate study.
December 4, 2020Down syndrome symposium highlights clinical, fundamental progress by David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Speakers describe studies to address Alzheimer’s disease, sleep apnea, and to advance fundamental discoveries in cell and chromosome biology.
December 3, 2020Neuroscientists find a way to make object-recognition models perform better by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Adding a module that mimics part of the brain can prevent common errors made by computer vision models.
November 24, 2020How humans use objects in novel ways to solve problems by Center for Brains, Minds and Machines What's SSUP? The Sample, Simulate, Update cognitive model developed by MIT researchers learns to use tools like humans do.
November 23, 2020Imaging method reveals a “symphony of cellular activities” by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Fluorescent imaging technique simultaneously captures different signal types from multiple locations in a live cell.
November 23, 2020A hunger for social contact by Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Neuroscientists find that isolation provokes brain activity similar to that seen during hunger cravings.
